What follows are tips that will increase your effectiveness as a leader, and create a culture of learning, growing, and enhanced contribution by focusing on three areas:

1. New Practices for Time Management
2. Facilitating More Productive Meetings
3. Managing Remote Teams Effectively

While there are many benefits to having a virtual workforce—including increased flexibility and decreased overhead costs—there are also challenges that need to be addressed. Three of the biggest challenges are how to keep virtual employees engaged, productive, and collaborating effectively. Without these three key components, a business is likely to underperform or eventually lose the most valuable asset they have – its employees.

Today’s volatile, complex, and uncertain economic environment has flattened traditional corporate hierarchies. Businesses are placing increasing value on employees who can take the initiative to make pivotal decisions that align with corporate strategy. More than ever, companies are expanding traditional C-Suite leadership training to ensure more employees have the leadership, technical and interpersonal skills to help them succeed

There is no such thing as someone born to be a leader. Everyone can learn how to be a better leader and apply the concepts daily. A portion of natural ability can of course help, but the development of soft skills is extremely necessary for today’s work environment. Leadership talents are increasingly in demand and are essential to attract more creativity to the workplace.

Besides the over discussed topic predicting that working from home will be among the human beings forever, we better face the fact that is the option available right now. To help you with the challenge of being in online meetings for longer than before, we gathered some tips and tricks from experts and from our leadership instructors on how to keep the video call etiquette.

Not too long ago, at some business or networking function, I was seated next to a gentleman who was a former President of a local bank in Florida.

We all know that pressure can lead to bad decisions and possible mistakes, there is no novelty with it. The point is that in business daily routines sometimes we can’t eliminate the “pressure factor”. According to Dr. Daniel Friedland, CEO of Super SmartHealth, it’s possible to avoid the probability of bad decisions with the right practices and processes.

Most of us have the wrong assumption that soft skills are more likely to relate to human resources areas and management teams. As the organizations evolve and we walk in direction to an automated and digital work environment, the development of soft skills abilities became an essential asset to hold.